The Definitive Linkedin Bootcamp
Alumni Relations is partnering up with The LinkedIn Guys to offer alumni with a series of webinars designed to enhance your LinkedIn expertise and turbocharge your career opportunities.
Master the art of networking on LinkedIn, discover secret strategies for job hunting, gain insights for a successful startup journey and elevate your career path with the advance techniques:
Upcoming Workshops:
LinkedIn for International Students: Nail Networking Culture
Date: September 18, 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Looking for opportunity outside your native business culture can come with all sorts of pitfalls. Luckily, LinkedIn + ChatGPT level the playing field by making it easy to network with alumni, even if that’s a brand-new experience for you.
Join a former LinkedIn insider who was responsible for supporting 20 million students around the globe to:
- Understand the hiring process - from how recruiters search for talent to how referrals can 10X your chances
- Discover sponsorship opportunities - by following the data trail left on LinkedIn and other job sites
- Develop your networking skills - by getting practice with reaching out to alumni, using the right AI supports to build instant rapport!
Inside the ATS: Write Resumes + Cover Letters That Beat the System!
Date: October 16, 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Here’s the brutal reality: The average recruiter juggles 30-40 open roles at a time and the average role attracts 250 resumes.
So there’s no way that even the world’s fastest recruiter is going to read every resume and cover letter. Instead, they’re going to use their Applicant Tracking System (ATS) to filter out the vast majority of applicants.
Make sure that your students get filtered in - not out - by giving them access to:
- A deep understanding of how recruiters really review resumes (from my time as a recruiter at Teach For America) and how Applicant Tracking System algorithms work (from my time inside LinkedIn)
- The simple formula to make every resume bullet and cover letter sentence powerful - just by engineering them to satisfy your two critical audiences (the recruiter + ATS)
- A resume and cover letter makeover that takes these ideas from the realm of theory into the land of action!
What Really Works: 7 Job Search Myths + What the Research Says
Date: November 20, 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 6:30pm - 7:30pm
What’s the worst part of looking for a job?
We spend so much time focusing on the things we were told when we were young (e.g., have a firm handshake!) - only to discover that they don’t actually matter.
And to make matters worse, there’s a whole new world of things (from Applicant Tracking Systems to the LinkedIn algorithm) that do matter - but that may not have even have existed when we were young!
So to set the record straight, let me walk you through the seven biggest job search myths - and what the research actually says - including:
- How qualified you need to be to land a job - and why you actually don’t want to be 100% qualified
- Why the timing of your application matters - and the golden window that increases your odds 8X
- Which part of the job interview matters the most - and hint, it’s not the case question!
Save the date
Save the dates and empower your career growth! The online webinars are FREE and registration is on a first-come, first-served basis. Register now through the form here to secure your spot!
What our alumni say
Thanks to the skills and knowledge I gained from the workshop, I was able to create a strong online presence and showcase my professional brand effectively to recruiters. I cannot recommend this workshop enough to anyone considering attending. It is a game-changer in terms of unlocking opportunities and maximizing your job search success. The guidance and resources offered are invaluable, and I am grateful for the support provided by the Alumni Relations Team at George Brown College. — Mayra Hernandez Perez Casas, Business Administration Program (2023)
As a result (of the workshops), I was able to secure a full-time job in Calgary a month after moving here. I am immensely grateful to George Brown College for providing me with an opportunity to acquire valuable skills that have been instrumental in my professional growth.
— Helen Nguyen, Hospitality – Hotel Operations Management (2023)
Check Out Our Past Webinars
The Definitive LinkedIn Bootcamp
Whether you’re new to LinkedIn or have been on it for a decade or more, it’s essential that you master the foundational techniques that will turbocharge your career.
And who better to lead your bootcamp than the two guys who led LinkedIn’s Education team? After training millions of students and alumni around the world, Omar Garriott and Jeremy Schifeling will get your profile and networking strategy whipped into shape in no time.
Job Search 2.0: ChatGPT + LinkedIn Secrets
Hiring today looks very different than it did 20 years ago. Applicant Tracking Systems, AI keyword matching, and LinkedIn Recruiter mean that it’s the rare recruiter who’s just sitting there looking through paper resumes.
So why are so many job-seekers still applying for jobs like it’s 1999?
Join Jeremy Schifeling, who served in leadership roles at both LinkedIn and Khan Academy (OpenAI’s first education partner for ChatGPT), for a deep dive into the most advanced LinkedIn and ChatGPT techniques.
Tactical Advice for Startup Careers
Whether you want to join a hot startup or start your own, it's hard to find a lot of very tactical advice out there beyond "Follow your dreams!"
Join a former LinkedIn staffer who's both worked for top startups (23andMe, Udacity, Khan Academy) and built his own to learn exactly how to discover opportunity, establish your online brand and network your way in.
LinkedIn for Career Exploration
Want to make sure that the next step on your career path is the best fit for your strengths and interests? Then be sure to join a former leader of LinkedIn’s Education Team to help guide your career exploration based on data + AI:
- Which paths make the most sense for you, based on a ChatGPT analysis of your background and passions
- Which alumni have gone down these paths, based on LinkedIn’s powerful dataset of 1B+ alumni
- How to engage and learn from them in a curiosity-driven way, even if you’re an introvert or international student
- How to test your career hypotheses in a rigorous way before committing to a new path
So ditch the "hope and pray" method of career exploration and discover a better way to find work you love!
LinkedIn for Entrepreneurs
What’s better than finding a great boss on LinkedIn? Becoming your own boss. And it turns out that LinkedIn has tools for aspiring entrepreneurs, too.
Join an entrepreneur who’s built his business online to find out how to:
- Establish your online brand - from customizing your LinkedIn profile to claiming your Company Page
- Earn new clients - by hanging your digital shingle on LinkedIn and getting RFPs sent straight to you
- Go viral - by leveraging ChatGPT to generate LinkedIn post hooks that attract customers + investors
Advanced Interview Hacks
You know the drill: Memorize the most likely questions, memorize your answers, and then regurgitate on-demand.
Unfortunately, it turns out that your human interviewer is the exact opposite of a Scantron machine. Instead of grading you objectively for being “right” or “wrong,” the latest neuroscience shows that we homo sapiens make our decisions based on much fuzzier logic.
So who better to learn advanced interviewing skills from than a kindergarten teacher who beat out consultants and bankers to win jobs at Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, LinkedIn, Udacity, 23andMe, and Khan Academy? Join Jeremy Schifeling to discover:
- The two things that every interviewer is actually looking for - and no, they’re not the STAR framework and a firm handshake
- Why winning the first 5 minutes of the interview is critical - and much more important than the perfect case structure or thank you letter
- The exact recipes to become a more organized and charismatic communicator - even if you’re an introvert, a non-native English speaker, or interviews are your kryptonite… :)
- How to leverage the latest AI + LinkedIn tools to get ready for massive success
